A spawn of the late twentieth century, Marco was first exposed to the allure of the fantastical by contemporary science fiction television. Needless to say, he was as disappointed as anybody to eve...view moreA spawn of the late twentieth century, Marco was first exposed to the allure of the fantastical by contemporary science fiction television. Needless to say, he was as disappointed as anybody to eventually learn that the star-hopping adventures depicted in those tales were pseudo-scientific pipe dreams and their visions of a utopian future decidedly optimistic. Yet, the sense of wonder was never lost to him. Besides having developed interests in real science and philosophy, Marco firmly retains his fascination for the strange and the not quite possible, for worlds that may well exist solely in our imagination but are free to enjoy an appropriate lack of bounds there.view less